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January 30, 2006
Fabio Sonnati's Flash Video Blog
Fabio Sonnati's Flash Video Blog
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Flash Ant: Flash and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) Blog . :: Echo, echo, echo... I think I hear Open Source Flash Communication Server! more at osflash.org/red5
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artnet Magazine - Technical Knock-outs
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Abstract Dynamics: There is no here here meanings...? In any case, interestingly enough, Google for here gives a nice top to bottom list of what people link to when they say "go here" or "download here" or ... Actually, you get very similar results (in the beginning at least) if you Google for download here or "go here". Interesting that people don't write, "download there". I love the second result: "ThereCare > Where can I download There?" Last, if you change from treating the web as a consumption network and want to know about it as a publishing network, try Googling for upload here instead. The results are truely Shaken.
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Discover Music through The Music Genome Project by Pandora They have a great interactive player that allows you to search for music that you like and it plays music that you would probably like. You can give thumbs up and thumbs down as well as add more artists to the mix. Too bad that it has to be slightly crippled due to the DMCA. From the site:
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Gnash - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) From the site:
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Wireless Networking in the Developing World From the site:
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Etsy - Your place to buy and sell all things handmade
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Videoblog directory: the most complete directory of videoblogs or vlogs: 4770 videoblogs and counting. Auto-generates thumbnails (here are some from generated from my mobile video blog: MobVCasting":
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Portable Video at USC
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Making Connections, Here and Now - New York Times
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P2P Videoconferencing Gets Better - Robin Good's Latest News From the article:
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Nokia 770 as mobile innovation platform
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CBS.com Netcasts
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Get FireAnt: Better than Television | Directory
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Miscellaneous Docs and Tools (Once again, I think I have linked to this in the past but I can't find it so here it is again.)
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Yack Pack Corporate
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Mindjack - Piracy is Good? How Battlestar Galactica Killed Broadcast TV From the article:
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Vara Software : Videocue
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EFF: DeepLinks You say you want the power to time-shift and space-shift TV and radio? You say you want tomorrow's innovators to invent new TV and radio gizmos you haven't thought of yet, the same way the pioneers behind the VCR, TiVo, and the iPod did? Well, that's not what the entertainment industry has in mind. According to them, here's all tomorrow's innovators should be allowed to offer you: "customary historic use of broadcast content by consumers to the extent such use is consistent with applicable law." Had that been the law in 1970, there would never have been a VCR. Had it been the law in 1990, no TiVo. In 2000, no iPod.
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Producing Participatory Media Blog Archive trackback checking
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Macromedia - Macromedia Mobile
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socialight | friends | mobile phones | fun
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Google Video: Trash Mixed With Treasure - New York Times
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New York Times Video
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No Animals Were Hurt Not sure why they are doing it this way but.. From the site:
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wwwSomnambulator
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LibertySpeeches.org: A Joint Project of the American Constitution Society and the Liberty Coalition
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www.StreamingMedia.com :: Google To Acquire dMarc Broadcasting
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Truveo Video Search
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Free Press : Press Release I completely agree. Hopefully, if Congress doesn't do something, the marketplace will. Here is an idea: http://www.freepress.net/news/13403
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Brits show appetite for mobile TV As mentioned in the article, the service they are exploring is DVB-H (a standard for mobile digital video). This is somewhat analogous to putting a digital TV tuner in a handheld device and is significantly different than the on-demand streaming services that the US carriers are pushing. What difference does it make? I am not sure I have a goodr response yet. I do believe that it means this is only good for live content though it can be interactive. I would love someone to point me to some interactive DVB-H content demos.
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Free Press : For Fox, the TV Set is Just Fine
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Vanderbilt Television News Archive From the site:
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The Doc Searls Weblog : Friday, January 6, 2006 The problem was storage again. It was always better to have a locally stored copy of the video than to try to get it over the net in real time. It just didn't use the net efficiently, and the 'buffering' experience really sucked. In fact, what I realised was that live TV was a waste of time too. But now we had enough storage. People spend lots of money on iPods and TiVo's, whose whole purpose is to turn live streams into files so you can pause and skip them, moving the storage into their houses, and pockets. This personal storage is why Podcasting makes sense. Downloading is always better than streaming, and Edited better than Live, except in one instance. That difference is when you have 2-way interaction. When you can speak back to the person at the other end, either via iChat AV or Skype, or just by having a textual back channel to a conference. That's where Live is needed.
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The Basics of the MMAPI for Java Developers
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Yahoo! Go - How It Works - TV Yahoo is integrating TV with internet based video search and Flickr along with Music and Movies, complete with reviews (and sooner or later all of the other things you can find on Yahoo's site).
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Epeus' epigone - Kevin Marks weblog Let's hope the QuickTime team is listening.
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Two weeks ago, I attended the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. Here is a quick write-up regarding it: CES, the Consumer Electronics Show was a very interesting and overwhelming event. First of all, it is by far the largest event that I have ever been to. The numbers were 150,000 plus attendees and 2500 plus vendors (booths). As the show title indicates, it is very consumer electronics orientated. This means, home theater audio and video, in car systems, mobile phones, portable music players and video players, digital cameras and video cameras and video game systems were there in a big way. While my interests and technology applicable to my work cross all of these areas, the sheer size and number of similar items makes it very difficult to find the best of the best. Fortunately, CES in general and these areas are well covered by the media and in reviews by other bloggers as well as by awards given out at the show. Therefore, I decided that it wasn't worth my time at this type of event to focus on them. If you are interested, CNet has good coverage online at: http://www.cnet.com/4520-11405_1-6398208-1.html and from CES itself lists the award winners: http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/awards/innovations/default.asp I, on the other hand was determined to find devices that enable the types of things that my research focuses on. Specifically, I went with the intention of looking at video capture devices that enable streaming as well as remote control capabilities, set top boxes that have open interfaces to allow for the development of software that runs on them, tablet computers, remote controls and phones that fit the bill to be used as a prototype platform for development of my various projects. With these tasks in mind I shied away from the areas of the conference that dealt with in car and home theater systems (mostly audio and large screens) and started off by going to the small out of the way booths. Fortunately, this tactic paid off almost immediately. I discovered (actually I think I may have rediscovered) a device called the Pepper Pad: http://www.pepper.com/ which is essentially a tablet PC running linux crossed with a universal remote control. It fits all of the requirements for developing a prototype for one of my projects and exceeds the capabilities (and suitability to the task at hand) of the devices that I have been using. The Pepper Pad does have a couple of drawbacks. First of all is the cost; it is in excess of $800.00, far too much for wide adoption. Second is the size; it is just a bit too large for my prototype purposes. These drawbacks are more than made up by the devices capabilities. Also promising is the fact that I made contact with and had a good conversation with the lead technical individual at the company that makes it. Finding the Pepper Pad was the most useful thing to happen for me at CES but a couple thoughts and notes are worth putting down as well. 1: Convergence, that nasty word from the mid 90's has finally arrived. Fortunately, it is being done better this time. No more are the dreams of a super device that does everything. Rather, the CE industry is starting to make devices that can talk to each other and share content. Handheld devices that can get content from set top boxes and media centers that can pull up photos and music from PCs are everywhere. Unfortunately the CE people don't quite know what the internet is good for yet. They have realized the potential of the internet as a distribution medium but have not realized that it needs to be open. In my opinion, there is no reason to use the internet for distribution unless it is open (both on the consumption side and publishing side). They are still treating the internet as a cable network when they should just be using a cable network. 2: Yahoo, Google and Microsoft were at the show in a big way (I don't mean sq. feet). This is interesting because they are not CE companies and don't really have CE products yet they hold the mind share and rightfully so. They get with the CE companies don't get (about the internet). Microsoft's Media Center platform is actually pretty nice and does offer the things that I would like everyone to offer (an open platform with API's). Google understands standards and wants interoperability. See the Google Keynote. Yahoo is the only company there that really showed an aptitude for mixing social behavior and media. I saw prototypes of Yahoo content on a TV platform that almost encouraged social behavior (in the standard Yahoo way). 3: Still, nobody understands that the TV is not the place for interactive content. People are still trying to shoehorn the internet onto TV. It will have some limited success but in the end, it will never live up to what can be done on a PC. Last here is a list of things that I saw with quick notes that I thought interesting enough to take a further look at. I haven't had the time to dig yet but I wanted to get them down. DX5 Digital Camera - Clone of Xacti ? Other news:
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evilutionary virtual log >> Blog Archive >> Free Chris From the post:
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Release 1.0 / Publication / Reinventing TV: Network TV Signs Off. Networked TV Logs On. From the abstract:
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GBN: The Future of Independent Media Andrew Blau writes a great essay contemplating Independent Media in the face of the quickly changing technological landscape. A very good read: From the text:
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The New York Times: David Pogue's Columns (Forum/Message Board) Well, I can't find the original article (not unusual for the NYTimes site) but the reader feedback on one of David Pogue's columns regarding the digital living room is very interesting. A nice glimpse into what people are using and what they might be using in the future (along with what they are definitely not going to use). Keep clicking Next after the jump. It goes on and on.
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TiVo.com | Contact Us Anyone tried this yet? (Besides Andrew that is)
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Google Jabbers And Jingles In any case, a quicky on Google's use of Jabber and their extensions (Jingle). A little tidbit about Asterisk support forthcoming near the end.
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Streamingmedia.com: Video iPod Sales Growth Portends Big Things for Streaming Media in 2006 My Comments: Mobile streaming video.. Hmmn.. Mobile carriers think it is the next big thing. If the iPod video is a success and I think it will be, it will be more about personal control over media and fair pricing than TV anywhere, neither of which the mobile carriers understand. For instance, I can't stream my home movies through Verizon's VCast service but I can offer a download of them through iTunes for iPod consumption.
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Publish Video Messages Online From Your Smartphone - Robin Good's Latest News
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Future Of Television Is Self-Service, P2P Distributed Media Consumption - Robin Good's Latest News
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AVING - Global News Network
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Stay Free! Daily: This Month in New York City Critical Mass OR How Much Does It Cost the City to Run One of Those Police Copters All Night? - Story of what Critical Mass has become. Bikers vs. Police. Messed up! Stay Free! Daily: Sucking on the tit of McDonald's - McD's, marketing to kids? I wouldn't say that this image is evidence but there is no doubt. Stay Free! Daily: Hiking through Manhattan - The highline! Stay Free! Daily: Radio Free Clear Channel - Clear Channel doing pirate radio. Quick someone get the FCC on them. Stay Free! Daily: How did Mad Hot Ballroom survive the copyright cartel? - I have always had issue with this. You can video tape a public space with visual private property in that space, but you can not have the sounds of that space if it includes music. Documentaries are greatly suffering because of this.
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Stay Free! Daily: Taking the permission society seriously
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Rich Hauck’s Blog Yippee.. Maybe if I could get it all to work. Soon..
Fabio offers some very nice and detailed knowledge regarding Flash Video. I am particularly impressed with the FFMPEG to FLV information.
Open Source Flash Communications Server in the works
Reblogged:
What is Red5, you ask? It's a project on OSFlash that aims to create an Open Source Flash Communication Server. The speed at which the project is progressing is quite astounding. An Open Source Flash Communication Server alternative appears to be mere months away
Tech Art January Roundup
Dorkbot, "Superlowrez" at vertexList and "Dewanatron" at Pierogi.
From the article:
For the show, vertexList brought aboard eight artists, among them the stalwarts of the Brooklyn art scene: Joe Amrhein, Brian Conley, Matt Freedman, Kristin Lucas, Jillian Mcdonald, Joe McKay, Akiko Sakaizumi and Jude Tallichet. All of them agreed to work with the same gadget for the project, a custom-built box of 12 x 14 electronic light-up "pixels." Since this dimension is calculated to be just under the pixel-content of the normal computer cursor, the format is extremely constraining (additionally, each box has a chip that can hold just 1,984 "frames" of information.)There is no here here
Google, like the internet itself draws its power from being neither here, nor there, but inbetween everywhere at once, immanent. There is no here there, only results, only meanings.
January 29, 2006
Musical DNA
Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like.January 28, 2006
Open Source Flash Rendering
Gnash is a GNU Flash movie player. Till now it has been possible to play flash movies with proprietary software. While there are a few other free flash players, none supports anything higher than SWF v4 at best. Gnash is based on GameSWF, and supports many SWF v7 features.
Wireless Networking in the Developing World
Creative Commons Licensed book
The massive popularity of wireless networking has caused equipment costs to continually plummet, while equipment capabilities continue to increase. By applying this technology in areas that are badly in need of critical communications infrastructure, more people can be brought online than ever before, in less time, for very little cost. We hope to not only convince you that this is possible, but also show how we have made such networks work, and to give you the information and tools you need to start a network project in your local community.Handmade Goods
MeFeedia Updates
MeFeedia starts offering reviews..
Portable Video at USC
Portable video blog and workshop series at USC. I love the image of KC on the PSP!
NYTimes wraps up current Mobile Social Software services
Included are two that I have had a small hand in: Socialight and Dodgeball.VSee get's some attention
I had a chance to try out VSee a couple of years ago and was thoroughly impressed. Milton and crew have done very nice work on this product.
If you are looking to try out one of the latest and best performing video conferencing technologies available out there, you have come to the right place.Nokia 770 - Looking for hackers to create a "killer app"
From the article:
The Nokia 770 web pad lacks a "killer app" to make it useful on a daily basis, writes blogger Russell Beattie. However, the device is much more open than previously available mobile devices, and as a result could serve as the development platform for mobile innovation, Beattie suggests. CBS Soap Opera Podcasts
Anyone a Soap Opera fan? I would love to hear thoughts about how this stacks up to watching them on TV.January 25, 2006
FireAnt :: Directory
The nice folks behind the FireAnt (video blogging aggregation software) have launched a new directory. It is complete with tags, ratings, browsing, searching and all the goodies.Bluetooth Remote Control
Sony Ericsson has Bluetooth Remote Control software for their phones and Mac/Windows PCs as well as an API to go with it.
January 24, 2006
YackPack - Simple Voice Messaging for Groups
From the site:
YackPack is a new way to stay connected with a group of friends, family or work colleagues. YackPack conveys the nuances of spoken language, leading to better communication, stronger friendships, and more group unity. In a nutshell, YackPack is simple voice messaging for groups.January 23, 2006
Piracy is Good? How Battlestar Galactica Killed Broadcast TV
Very interesting and thorough article about recent trends in downloading television programming.
Now we have a paradox: the invention of an incredibly powerful mechanism for the global distribution of television programming brings with it a fundamental challenge to the business model which pays for the creation of the programs themselves. This is not at all BitTorrent's fault: the technology could have come along a decade ago, and if it had, we'd have stumbled across this paradox in the 1990s. This is a failure of the value chain to adapt to a changing technological landscape — a technological desynchronization between producer and audience. Once again, there's no need to find fault: things have changed so much, and so quickly, I doubt that anyone could have kept up. But the future is now here, and everyone in the creative value chain from producer to audience must adapt to it.Vara Software releases Videocue 2
Seems a bit like another product (Serious Magic's Vlog It). Competition in this space is good for all though..New Senate Broadcast Flag Bill Would Freeze Fair Use
From the article:
Draft legislation making the rounds in the U.S. Senate gives us a preview of the MPAA and RIAA's next target: your television and radio. (Please write your Senator about this!)January 22, 2006
Trying a trackback...
January 21, 2006
Flash capable phones
Nice Socialight infomercial..
Nice mobile social software. Check it out..!January 20, 2006
Pogue sums up some of the things wrong with Google video
From the article:
Google is surely aware of these limitations and has plans to address them. One aspect of Google Video, however, will not be so easily changed: its copy-protection scheme, a new one that Google wrote itself. You can't burn the shows to a CD or DVD, and can't play them back on portable players like iPods. In fact, most of the TV shows don't play back at all without an active Internet connection, which, for most people, also rules out laptop playback on planes, trains and automobiles. This is sickening news for anyone who thought that two incompatible copy-protection schemes - Apple's and Microsoft's - were complex and sticky enough already. And compared with the ABC and NBC shows available on the iTunes store, the value of the CBS shows looks even worse.January 19, 2006
NY Times Video
So the Times has a good amount of video online. Too bad they don't have a feed with enclosures (also too bad that it is Flash and therefore has no chance of being portable).
January 18, 2006
Unique way to present a movie online
A film about Alan Turing presented 1 frame per user at a time. You have to hit it on the right date or just after the 5000 viewer to see the whole thing.
Each unique visitor unlocks one frame, out of the total 5000. Each time 5000 is exceeded, the counter is reset, at which time a full version will be available for the next 24 hours. Currently, after 15946 visitors, the film is 19% its proper length.It's time for you to be Somnambulated!
I love it..!Al Gore's MLK speech...
Let's hope people keep speaking out against Bush!Google getting into Radio Advertising
AOL purchases Truveo, a video search company
Hmmn.. I like the search engine. AOL was smart.
From the site:
Welcome to Truveo. We have spent the last couple years developing some new technology to find all of the best video on the web. Please try our video search engine and let us know what you think. Just type a query into the search box above or select one of the popular searches below.We are pleased to announce that Truveo is now part of AOL�. You can read more about this acquisition here.Network Neutrality
From the report:
"Congress should enact tough new laws prohibiting cable and telephone companies from blocking consumer access to content and services on the Internet, bilking both consumers and Internet-based companies," said Jeannine Kenney, senior policy analyst at Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine. "If they don't, these big companies will use their market power to line their pockets by discriminating against competitors in favor of their own content and service offerings."Mobile video might take off in Britain
Fox not jumping on mobile video bandwagon
Garth Ancier, chairman of the WB, is quoted in the article in a good summation:
“You have to look at each of these things and how many people are participating, what they’re paying, what their pain tolerance for paying is, do they want it with commercials, without commercials, do they want to own it, do they want to lease it,” he said. “I think everything right now is basically in sort of a test stage.”January 17, 2006
Television News Archive
Very nice archive, too bad it isn't streaming or downloadable yet. I suppose that will take a lot of effort.
The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, the Persian Gulf war, and the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001.The end of broadcast as we know it...
Doc writes:
The meta-story behind Intel's Viiv and Clickstream announcments yesterday is not just the death of TV as we know it, but the gang-stabbing of it by Intel, Apple and their new partners in the broadcasting and entertainment industries. Or, if you prefer, by the reconstituted entertainment industry, which will still be about production and distribution, but without the current channel-based TV system (which will come to an FCC-mandated end in 2009 — it was originally scheduled for 2006 — when every TV station will be required to move off its branded VHF channel and up to some unbranded UHF digital channel, by which time nearly everybody will stop watching over-the-air TV anyway, getting everything we used to call TV over cable, satellite or Internet).
Epeus' epigone - Kevin Marks weblog
Kevin Marks Follows Up with:
In 1998, I went to work at Apple on QuickTime, and started work on live streaming. This was hard work, but interesting - making a personal TV Transmitter for anyone with a Mac, so they could use the internet for lots of people to watch them at once. Having built this technology, I started looking for uses for it, and was rather bemused to find there weren't any.
EXACTLY!Sample Chapters from "Developing Scalable Series 40 Applications: A Guide for Java Developers"
Looks pretty good and thorough. Chapters relating to the J2ME MMAPI, including an introduction, audio playback, other media playback, capture and a summary.
Yahoo! Go - TV
I had mentioned Yahoo and their TV initatives earlier so I figured I should give a pointer. While this exactly what I found the most interesting, it has a similar concept. (The Yahoo! Go TV Concepts were more interesting)How Apple lost it's Web Video mojo, and how it could get it back
Kevin Marks, a former Apple QuickTime engineer details what happened at Apple to allow QuickTime to become a second class media player/format and how they now have a chance (thanks to podcasting and video ipods) to try again.CES Wrap-up
Microsoft TV IPTV Edition
Playstation 3 - Blueray - Interactive Java Games supported by Blueray spec
SCH-B360 Samsung compact satellite mobile tv phone - dmb - evdo - tv out
DLNA - nokia support
GE Solar Cam
Panasonic 3CCD SD Camcorder SDR S190 or S100
Excercise by playing video games = very itp like - game runner
Ant - iptv platform - not really sure what level - javascript interactivity
Philips remote control honoree 2006 innovations - TSU3500 or SRU9600
ACE LHD Professional Media Server http://www.acedigitalhome.com/
Lifetouch by exceptional innovation
JVC G Series HDD camera http://www.jvc.com/presentations/everio_g/
SD PDA Camera SDC-001A (for palm and pocket pc)
Lego mindstorms nxt
VEX Robotics Design System
Akimbo = not open
Creative Webcam Live Wireless
Yahoo mirror display - in bathroom computing
Yahoo mobile
Walkview handsfree = sports dv camera
Opcom chipcam camera modules
Viiv = upnp = dlna?
Universal remotes with breakout box for devices (basically IR blaster)
Samsung sports camcorder - mpeg4 asp (dumb)
Samsung cameras ptz - see data sheets
Wisecomm wireless camera
Dlink wireless g optical zoom ptz camera
Xavix baseball golf and so on (physical interaction)
Creative Zencast = serious magic = vision
Nokia modeo
Leadtek H.264 based Triple-Play Set-Top Box
Google video launched a pay download service
Tivo series 3 - HD and Digital broadcast tuners coming soon.
TiVo Desktop 2.3 Beta: featuring automatic transfers and support for Apple® video iPod™ and Sony PSP™ (Playstation® Portable).
Free Chris
Webmaster of NTFU thrown in jail on obscenity charges after opening his adult site up to soldiers in Iraq to post pictures.
Chris Wilson, of Lakeland Florida, is the webmaster of NTFU, a user forum created in June of 2004 where people could post pictures of their wives or girlfriends nude. It recieved some national attention for the “G.I. Jane” controversy, but most recently for images of corpses in Iraq.
Chris granted interviews to dozens of news agencies and websites about this issue. He expressed his opinion on the morality of posting these images, and pornography in general. This sparked some major controversy with islamic groups, and anti pornography groups.
On October 7th, 2005, Polk County Sheriff officers raided his home and seized computer equipment and other files, including 20 films and 80 photos, and arrested him on 300 counts of obscenity charges. He is currently being held on $101,000 bail.Reinventing TV
Scott Kirsner write in an older Release 1.0 about Networked TV. It is a good article, too bad it costs so much.
Television, because of its high production and distribution costs and FCC regulation, has always been the most massive of all the mass media. It seeks the middle ground, and usually finds it. The ads that accompany today's shows are made with a similar shotgun mentality: There's no such thing as one-to-one marketing on the tube. Any niche-oriented programming that does exist tends to be available only to small audiences, on obscure satellite channels or community cable access stations.
That will change over the next decade, as a growing number of television sets, PCs and mobile devices are connected to what Jeremy Allaire, the founder of Brightcove, has dubbed "the Internet of video." Plugging TV into IP rather than into a terrestrial cable system or a fleet of geosynchronous satellites, could redeem - or at least reinvigorate - the medium. The hermetically sealed world of television is about to be cracked open and rewired, transformed into an open publishing platform as a variety of new devices and services emerge to make independent video content easier - and perhaps even profitable - to produce and distribute to smaller subsets of the population.The Future of Independent Media
I thought I linked to this a while ago but I couldn't find it recently when recommending it to a student.
The technologies that enable us to make and consume motion media are becoming better, cheaper, and more widely available—and with blistering speed. As a consequence, patterns of media production and consumption are changing just as rapidly. The Internet continues to create new opportunities to connect with audiences. Video games are becoming a platform for critique and education. A new generation of media makers and viewers is emerging, which only increases the likelihood of profound change. Images, ideas, news, and points of view are traveling along countless new routes to an ever-growing number of places where they can be seen and absorbed. It is no understatement to say that the way we make and experience motion media will be transformed as thoroughly in the next decade as the world of print was reshaped in the last.Digital Living Room - Stalls
January 16, 2006
Video Bloggers, get on TiVo
From the site:
The TiVo Videoblog Project is currently experimenting with ways to make the new medium of videoblogs accessible on television. If you have a videoblog or are interested in participating, please fill out this form.
Jabber, Jingle, Google and Asterisk
What a funny bunch of words..
iPod video, will it lead to more streaming video consumption?
From the article:
The biggest unanswered question, of course, is whether the average consumer, who has preferred her iPod audio and video downloaded, not streamed, will warm to the idea of streaming content that could really be accessed from anywhere she has cell or wireless data service.
It was suggested in the article that the answer might come at CES or at MacWorld. While interesting related items were announced at CES (nothing at MacWorld AFAIK) I don't think this actually has anything to do with what the consumer will actually adopt.More MobVCasting software popping up
From the entry:
A company called ComVu is developing two technologies that allow this to happen by simply using your smartphone. Already in beta: live "one to many" transmission from a mobile device and "do-it-yourself" video networkingMassive Media, distilled
Robin Good edits and re-presents Dan Melinger's Massive Media thesis.
Button Camera and Microphone
Really interesting Bluetooth button camera.
From the site:
If you wear this button-looking device on your suit, it records the situation of a spot and transmit the data to remote areas using the wireless transmit technology (Bluetooth) in real time. The device detects movements of an object and records them automatically. You can have access and communicate several Self Guard devices from anywhere you can use the internet. So, even if you are not present in the spot, you can install this model in various hidden places and take control of the situation while giving instructions. It comes up with rechargeable battery.January 15, 2006
NYC Grassroots Media Coalition Conference - February 11
stay free, article roundup
stay free asks for permission to sing Happy Birthday.. No response. No surprise.
I wonder if she were to video tape it and put it up on the site (evidence of the deed), would they come knocking?January 12, 2006
Writing Actionscript with Eclipse (FAME)
Rich just let me know a little secret about:
Writing Actionscript with Eclipse (FAME)